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John le Carré (1931–2020): Spy novelist and “inside-outside” man British author and former intelligence agent John le Carré died of pneumonia December 12 aged 89 years. Le Carré leaves behind an intriguing body of literary work set against a background of some of the key political and social developments of the past half-century. In the course of his career, le Carré was able to draw from experiences made during and after the Cold War to attract millions of readers with his carefully researched spy novels. Born in 1931, David John Moore Cornwell—he adopted the name John le Carré ...

"His father didn't admit until he [le Carré] was an adult that he'd served a jail term, and his mother left late at night without saying goodbye," said Sisman. As a boy, le Carré told school friends his father had been a spy. Sisman explained: "He was of a generation, during the war, that what your dad did was terribly crucial. Ronnie was that most despised person, a war profiteer, rather than away at the front fighting in the army." "He was sent to Sherborne, the Dorset public school, but ran away when he was 17. And here the truth and the fiction of his life start to collide - he claimed ...

Troubled spirit: John le Carré Credit: Hulton Archive John le Carré spent most of his childhood pining for his mother and much of his adult life wishing his father would disappear. In later life he stated frankly that the absence of one parent and the overbearing presence of the other were the key to understanding his life and his fiction.  It is Ronnie and Olive Cornwell we have to thank for giving their son David the gifts and temperament that would transform him into John le Carré, the outstanding spy novelist of the 20th Century. His intertwined careers as an intelligence officer and ...

The great thriller writer was the best raconteur I have ever known. By Philippe Sands Mr. Sands is an international lawyer and the author of two books about the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity — with a keen interest in the escape route some Nazis took postwar. He was a friend of the renowned thriller writer John Le Carré, who died on Saturday. Dec. 15, 2020 David Cornwell, who wrote as John le Carré, in Austria in 1965.Credit...Erich Hartmann/Magnum Photos LONDON — I came to know David Cornwell, who wrote as John le Carré, just after the United States and B...

How to Start Reading John le Carré If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. John le Carré, the acknowledged sage of espionage fiction, had the literary equivalent of perfect pitch. Not only was he adept at mimicry, especially of the English upper class; he knew why and how to use it to decimate hypocrisy. Le Carré died Dec. 12, and it’s safe to say the world will never see his like again, because his powers arose from unique, irreplaceable circumstances. Born David Cornwell in 1931, he was the son ...